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	'<{title}>' => 'Probably not meeting the missionaries this week',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="religion">
	<h2>Religions lessons</h2>
	<p>
		It seems the missionaries mistitled their email.
		They meant Thursday, not today.
		However, they now want to meet half an hour later than usual.
		I said I couldn&apos;t do that, and explained that after our meeting, I&apos;ve got to rush to Eugene for another meeting.
		That&apos;d be the dietary group meeting.
		I think I might blow off the $a[EUGLUG] meeting after that because I&apos;m tired of making two trips to Eugene in a single day, but I can&apos;t blow off the dietary group meeting.
		I offered to meet with them some other day, but never got a response.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="broken">
	<h2>Broken</h2>
	<p>
		I was trying to use rubber cement to fix the rubber piece under my mouse button last night.
		It was a long shot, but I hoped it would work.
		I got the cement in the wrong spot and pulled my mouse button up again, and a new part of the plastic came loose.
		I assumed this was another part that was <strong>*meant*</strong> to come lose, so I pulled it the rest of the way off.
		It allowed me better access to the spot that needed to be glued.
		I then let the glue dry overnight, leaving the plastic panel and all three mouse keys off.
	</p>
	<p>
		This morning, I tried to put the panel back on only to fine that it doesn&apos;t really stick anywhere.
		It seems it was never meant to come off, and taking it off actually broke it.
		Now all three of my mouse buttons are unusable.
		Great.
	</p>
	<p>
		The keyboard has a second left and right mouse button (though not a middle one) which I&apos;ve been making use of lately, though they require a hand position that means I have to use the trackpad instead of the nub mouse.
		I used to prefer the trackpad, honestly.
		However, on this machine, the trackpad often stops working, and the only way to get it working again is to jiggle the nub mouse, which sometimes doesn&apos;t work the first time, and you have to do it again.
		It makes using the trackpad cumbersome.
		Lately, I&apos;ve also found that the trackpad doesn&apos;t let you move the cursor while you&apos;re typing.
		That&apos;s normally not a problem, though it is when you&apos;re trying to play Minetest.
		You can&apos;t move and look around at the same time, and it makes gameplay unpleasant.
	</p>
	<p>
		This really sucks, and I don&apos;t think there&apos;s anything I can really do about it.
	</p>
	<p>
		As you might remember, I have a backup laptop waiting for when this one breaks down.
		However, the backup laptop can&apos;t actually be used until I have an Internet connection set up.
		It can&apos;t connect to the hotspots around my complex, so I&apos;ll need to set up my own hotspot.
		And now that I think of it, I&apos;m not sure how well its bizarre mouse setup will work for Minetest.
		I might not even be able to play on that computer.
		And of course, that ignores the fact that I tend to wear my computers out to the last of their capabilities.
		I wouldn&apos;t give up on this laptop just because I managed to break one of the sets of mouse buttons.
		The machine still otherwise works perfectly.
	</p>
	<p>
		Oh, and by the way, it seems my rubber cement idea for repairing the mouse button was just as terrible as it sounded.
		With the panel just laid on top of where it goes, the other two mouse buttons work, but that one works even less than before.
		So I pulled off the glue.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="diet">
	<h2>Dietary intake</h2>
	<p>
		I was supposed to open two cans of black beans to use in the fajitas, according to the recipe.
		The recipe made six of the things though, and I didn&apos;t plan to eat them right away.
		So I opened one can of beans, figuring I&apos;d open the other when I got around to starting the final three fajitas.
		The first can was pretty much full of beans though, with a little bean goo around them.
		In other words, there was nothing to drain.
		I opened the second can today though, and found the can to be half liquid.
		Not nearly as many actual beans.
		I can&apos;t stand these fajitas though, and just wanted to get them over with, so I took the opportunity to fill them with more bell pepper mixture in place of the beans, so I only had two left to eat instead of three.
		I then had a 421-gram one for breakfast and a 444-gram one for lunch.
		I then just had salad with sunflower seeds, vinegar, olives, and seasoning salt for dinner, totalling 203 grams.
		I&apos;d planned to have a third fajita for dinner, so I did technically plan dinner, but I only actually ate my planned meal for breakfast and lunch.
		It was two planned meals instead of one though, so I think it meets the spirit of the goal, even if not the letter of it.
		I also snacked on 325 grams of pretzels and 71 grams of juice, as none of my meals today were actually satisfying.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I like your path for corrections and notes.
			It&apos;s something you don&apos;t see at a school such as this one, where the schedule is automated by the machine.
			In a brick and mortar school though, it&apos;s often possible to fix or even outright redo assignments when needed, if the professor can see you&apos;re making an honest effort and are just struggling.
			You can often even get extra help when you&apos;re in such a position.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			You make a great point about encryption being an ancient practice.
			It&apos;s evolved much over the years, but it goes back a lot further than people tend to think.
			One simple example is the Caesar Cypher.
			It&apos;s been said that Julius Caesar, whom the cypher was named after, used it to encrypt military information.
			It&apos;s believed that the cypher might be even older than that though, and it&apos;s known that similar cyphers were definitely in use before Julius&apos; time.
			Encryption has been around since long before the advent of the first computers.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
END
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